Medal Appetizer Indian Women Archer Bombayla

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Laishram Bombayla Devi is a talented Indian Archer. She got selected for the second time at the London Olympics 2012. She was represented for India at 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Women's Individual and team category, unfortunately she failed in both the events. She was the first women qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics after a good performance in 2007 World Archery Championship. In team category she was placed 6th rank. She was ranked at 22nd place in individual. In the year 2007, she got two medals in two tournaments. Bombayla bagged Gold medal in individual category in International Archery Challenge Cup and grabbed gold medal in both the individual and team qualifiers at the Asian Archery Grand Prix was held in Iran.

In 2009 Asian Circuit Archery Meet she bagged again two medals in the same tournament bronze - individual and gold in team event. In 2010, 5 medals in different tournaments. Gold in team of Asian Grand Prix in Bangkok, in south Asian Games she won Silver and Gold in both the events. In 2011 World Cup Stage II, Bombayla won Silver in team and in World Cup Stage IV Laishram grabbed Gold - team qualifiers ...
... event. Laishram Bombayla Devi profile of pride came out when she won the Gold medal in Commonwealth Games 2010. In 2012, she was one of the proud recipient of 'Arjuna Award 2012' and cash prize of about Rs.5 lakh by the Government of India along with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. In London Olympics 2012, Laishram lost his game with 2-6 points against Roman Aida of Mexico Archer in individual event in the Pre-Quarter finals. Bombayla's mother is an archery coach, her sister Vesuzolu also an archer. She won three out of 5 sets in Olympics.

The Indian Archery team bagged 8 medals (2 Gold , 2 Silver and 4 Bronze medals) in 1st Asian Grand Prix- Bangkok. The Archery Association of India announced Twentieth Senior Indian National Championship will be held at Rajpur from April 17th-21st 2013. Many talented archers from Indian Archery team got lot of awards and achievements in their tournaments such as Laisram, Deepika Kumari, Limba, Tarundeep, Dola, Satyadev and many archers. In third set at 2012 Olympics Bombayla scored 28th minutes with two10's to take a 4-2 points lead and in the final set was 25 - 25 but Laishram scored 10 points and finally lost in pre- quarters.